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-Fermium : it was named after nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi

-Einsteinium: it was named after Albert Einstein

-Mendelevium: it was named after Dimitri Mendeleev

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What are three elements named after great scientists?

Einsteinium and mendelevium, Thorium, Curium, Fermium, Rutherfordium, Bohrium, Seaborgium, etc., etc.


How were elements named?

The names come from a number of languages, of wich the main two are: Latin and Greek. Other languages include: Aryan and Sanskrit. Or from countries, like: Rome and Scandinavian. The actual names come from what the elements characteristics, or it's origin for example: 'Hydrogen' Greek "HYDOR", water, plus "GEN", forming. 'Titanium' For Titans of Roman mythology. 'Magnesium' Latin "Magnesia", A district in Asia minor.


What are three sources for the name of elements?

Three (of many) sources for the names of the elements are: 1. The name of the place where it was discovered (eg, Hassium: symbol Hs; at no 108, at wt 277 ~ its was named after Hesse, Germany) 2. The name of the scientist who discovered it (eg, Bohrium: symbol Bh; at no 107; at wt 277 ~ named for Neils Bohr) 3. An ancient name carried forward (eg, Gold: symbol; Au; at no 79; at wt 197 ~ named for Aurum, the Latin word for gold, just translated to different more modern languages.)


What three groups do scientist arrange elements into?

Scientists arrange elements into metals, nonmetals, and metalloids based on their physical and chemical properties. Metals are typically good conductors of electricity, nonmetals are poor conductors, and metalloids have properties of both metals and nonmetals.


What are the difference between the three elements?

Please list the three elements in your question when you resubmit.

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What are three elements named after scientist?

Einsteinium and mendelevium, Thorium, Curium, Fermium, Rutherfordium, Bohrium, Seaborgium, etc., etc.


Who is the scientist that grouped elements into sets of three?

Newland, Moseley, , Dobereiner, Mendeleeff...


What three elements were named after the same place?

Einsteinium, Lawrencium, and Californium are three elements that were named after the same place.


Which scientist does not have an element named after them albert Einstein lise meitner bill nye enrico ferrmi?

Bill Nye does not have an element named after him. The other three scientists (Albert Einstein, Lise Meitner, Enrico Fermi) have elements named after them (Einsteinium, Meitnerium, Fermium).


What are three famous buildings in Washington D.C. named after famous people?

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What 4 elements was named after planets?

Three elements named after places are Copper, Berkelium, and Californium


What are ten elements named after people?

Einsteinium, Lawrencium, and Nobelium to name but three.


What is the name of the famous scientist who gave us newtons three laws of motion?

Albert Einstein


What is the first name of the famous scientist who gave us newton three laws of motion?

Isaac.


Who were three famous female scientists and what did they discover?

Marie Curie, Barbara McClintock, and Jane Goodall are three famous female scientist. While Marie Curie and her husband Pierre discovered the elements radium and polonium, Barbara McClintock worked on genetic transposition for which she received the Nobel prize. Jane Goodall was a primatologist who was an expert on chimpanzees.


What famous cartoonist on insects and animals has three insects named after him?

Larson


What elements are named after geographic locations?

There are no elements named after places since an element is atoms which are all the same not a mixture of two types of atoms nor a compound which is more than three.